The vision of the Faith Community Network and Volunteer Chaplaincy Services program is to provide a full range of programs and services that will turn around the lives of troubled youth and ensure that voluntary chaplaincy services are available to youth and their families during times of family crisis.

The Foundation serves to changes lives - the lives of students, their parents, and the citizens in our community - by promoting delinquency prevention, intervention and educational opportunities for youth.

Monthly Accountability Scorecard

Delinquency Profile

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's "electronic release" of data on delinquency arrests and dispositions, the Delinquency Profile, examines Florida's juvenile justice system at several points of the juvenile justice continuum. The Profile covers a five-year period, ending in the most recent fiscal year. In addition to statewide figures, the Profile makes it possible to access data broken down by judicial circuit and county level via an interactive web-based format. Data is presented in both tabular and graphic format, by offense type, race, age and sex.

Civil Citation Dashboard

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's "electronic release" of data on Civil Citation, the Civil Citation Dashboard, examines Florida's use of Civil Citation as an alternative to arrest for 1st time misdemeanants. The Dashboard makes it possible to access data broken down by judicial circuit, county level and law enforcement agency via an interactive web-based format. Data is presented in both tabular and graphic format, by offense type, race, age and sex. The Dashboard is updated monthly using data from the Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS) and covers a “rolling” 12 month period. Please note that there is a one-month delay in reporting Civil Citation data to ensure adequate time for data entry and data integrity reviews.

Delinquency in Florida's Schools Dashboard

The Department of Juvenile Justice monitors the number of youth and arrests for delinquent offenses that were identified as occurring on school grounds, a school bus (or bus stop) or at an official school event. This information is generally provided to the Department by law enforcement as part of the delinquency intake process and is recorded in the Department's Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS). The Department's interactive Delinquency in Florida's Schools Dashboard allows you to examine delinquency in Florida's schools between FY2010-11 and FY2015-16.

Disproportionate Minority Contact Dashboard

The Disproportionate Minority Contact Benchmark Reports allows you to examine racial and ethnic disparities at the county level to determine whether Disproportionate Minority Contact issues are present within a given jurisdiction. Individual dashboards are available for the fiscal years from FY 2013-14 to FY 2015-16.

Two Year Trends and Conditions

This page is no longer updated. Access to updated information is available through the interactive dashboards created by the Department. Select the "Current" tab for links to those pages.

The Adolescent Population of Florida

Florida's population of 10 to 17-year-olds decreased half a percent between FY 2010-11 and 2012-13. For FY 2010-11, Florida's population of 10 to 17-year-olds was estimated to be approximately 1.84 million, and 1.83 million during FY 2012-13.

Most Frequent Juvenile Offenses

Misdemeanor simple assault or battery was the most common offense juveniles were arrested for during FY 2012-13. There were 11,885 delinquency arrests where the most serious offense was misdemeanor assault or battery.

Burglary was the most common felony offense. During FY 2012-13, there were 8,874 delinquency arrests where the most serious offense was burglary.

"Moving in the Right Direction"

The majority of the Department’s key indicators of public safety and delinquency in Florida are trending in the right direction. There are fairly substantial reductions in almost every major offense category, including the most serious juvenile offenses. Results presented here show the positive impact resulting from the implementation of the Department’s strategic plan. The following section summarizes these trends.

Overall Juvenile Delinquency Rates in Florida

Florida's juvenile crime rate is down from 59 delinquency arrests per 1,000 juveniles during FY 2010-11 to 46 delinquency arrests for every 1,000 juveniles during FY 2012-13.